Clothespin



March 2 1926.

c. LIMPRIGHT GLOTHESPIN Filed Sept. 29, 1924 !NVENTOR CLIFFORD L/MPfi/GHT f Q i TTORNEY Patented Mar. 2, 1926.

1 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICEQ,

CLIFFORD LIMPRIGHT, OF MARYSVILLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR TO UTILITY MANU- i FACTURING COMPANY, OF MARY SVILLE, WASHINGTON, A CORPORATION.

CLOTHESPIN.

Application filed September 29, 1924. Serial No. 740,494.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLIFFORD LIMPRIGI-IT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Marysville, Snohomish County, lVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inClothespins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes pins, and more particularly to clothes pins of that character formed chiefly from a single piece of spring wire; it being the principal object of the invention to provide clothes pins that are easily applied or removed, that will securely clamp and hold the clothes to a line without any danger of damage thereto and which may be sold at a relatively small cost.

More specifically, the object of the invention resides in the provision of a wire clothes pin made from a single piece of wire bent so as to form two paired yieldable legs for application to opposite sides of a clothes line and on which there is a slidably mounted loop for limiting the spread of the legs and the extent to which they are applied over the line.

Other objects reside in the details of construction and form of the legs which makes the pin easy to apply or to remove and whereby the loop is retained thereon.

In accomplishing these and other objects, I have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying draw ings, wherein Figure 1 is a view showing a clothes line and clothes attached thereto by clothes pins embodied by this invention.

Figure 2 is a view of a clothes pin as functionally applied to a line.

Figure 3 is an edge View of the pin.

Figure 4 is a sectional view through the pin taken on line 44 in Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a view illustrating the pin as retained on the line when not in use.

Referring more in detail to the drawings The clothes pin, as shown best in Figures 2 to 5, is preferably formed from a single piece of stiff spring wire that is bent upon itself at a central point to provide two complemental, substantially parallel and symmetrically formed legs 1 and 2 joined at the bend by a somewhat enlarged loop 3 into which a person may extend a finger for pull' tions 6 continuing from the straight portions 4 which limit the downward travel of the ring 5 and these parts 6 are then bent inwardly into continuing portions 7 with their ends brought together and then curled outwardly to form closed loops 8.

In using the pin, the legs 1 and 2 are applied over the line, designated at 10, in the usual manner, and are advanced until the ring 5 has been pushed upwardly on the leg portions 4 against the loop 3. The ring then limits the spread of the legs and in this way retains them clamped against the clothes and line. To remove the pin, it is pulled upwardly by means of loop 3 and may then be left hanging on the line as shown in Figure 5.

From the above it is apparent that a clothes pin constructed in accordance with my invention is very simple and is particularly adapted for use by reason of the ease and convenience with which it is applied and removed. It cannot in any way cause damage to the clothes and has sufficient flexibility as to adapt itself either to bulky or thin articles and to lines of various diameter. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

A clothes pin of the character described comprising a single piece of spring wire bent at the center upon itself to provide a connecting loop and a pair of legs; said legs being formed straight and extending substantially parallel in slightly spaced retoretain the pin on the line, and a ring lation from said loop and, toward their ends, slidable in the straight formed part of said 10 bent outwardly and then inwardly, forming legs as a means of limiting their spread an intermediate open space for the clothes and their extent of projection over a line.

line when the pin is not functionally in use; Signed at Everett, Snohomish County, said legs being provided with outwardly Washington, this 15th day of September curled, closed loops at their ends, normally 1924.

engaged so as to close the said open space CLIFFORD LIMPRIGHT. 

